July 25, 2025 • 26 mins
Set in a frontier town, this series follows a U.S. Marshal as he maintains law and order. The show combines action with moral dilemmas of the Old West.
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Around Dodge City and in the territory on West, there
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and the smell of
guns smoke guns Starry William Conrad, The story of the
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violence that moved west with young America, and the story
of a.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Man who moved with us.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I'm that man, Matt Dellham, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chance, a job, and it makes a man
watchful and a little lonely.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
And I sure do hope things mister Dillan, Are you
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listening to this? Huh oh, yeah, yeah, sure go ahead, Chester,
And I sure do hope things has been good with
you like they had been with me. Take care of yourself.
Maybe I will come up to see you one day soon,
your loving brother Magne. And down here at the bottom
of the paper, he says, your uncle Will got crumped
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on by a Kyle last week.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
And I ain't that nice, mister John. What are you
mean about?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I go well, No, I mean getting this letter from Magnus.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
It's real thought of him. It's the first one I
remember you getting.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
It's the first one he's wrote to me. At least.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It sure is funny, though I.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Never knew that boy could write a lict.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Oh maybe he's learned since you saw him last.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
No, No, I don't think so, because magnets don't hold
with schooling now, no shirt, none of my kinfolks does.
We Mayama always said that all the body needs to
know is how to cook, care for your own and
get to the church. She must have made your Paul
very good wife. I don't know as he ever said.
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He run off when I was only four. Him and
me never talked to each other much.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
He's a marshal mister, all right, he yes, Miam, that's right.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I'm Nancy cree Well, come.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
In, Masha, this is Chester prodflip. That's crety.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
How you do creed Manchu.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I come to see you because my PAW's gonna shoot
somebody dead and I want you.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Should stop him.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Who's your paw gonna shoot? Nancy?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Fellow?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
That work frame for a spell?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Name Ben Taliver? Oh is your pauw after it?
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Ben run off last night and took one of Paul's studs.
Paul says he is just about the best stud Paul
ever saw.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Oh what do you and your Paul live, Nancy?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
About twenty miles from here, how along the Arkansas.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
And you think this man that's been Tolliver came into Dutch.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I don't just think it, Marshall, I know it, and
so does Paul. Ben Allay said he was coming here,
that's see. So I sneaked away this morning after Paul
went down to the corral to come tell you. I
figured you'd be the failer to see, being the Marshall
And oh.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Well, look, Nancy, if this man stole one of your
PAW's horses, why doesn't your.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Paw come in here and tell me? He could swear
out a warrant for Tulliver and then I could arrest him.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Pau don't want to, He says he will take care
of his own troubles. Do you think he can stop
Paul from shooting Ben? Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I can sure try. And Nancy, tell me, what does
your paw look like look like? Well, you see, I
don't know your paw, but if I know what he
looked like, I could watch for him.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
You see, I never thought about Paus looking like anything
except just Paul.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
He's kind of gray.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
But then he's always looked like that.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Well anything else.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
He's got a bad leg from where a horse kicked
him and his jaws.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Busted some Well, that don't sound like he should be
hard to find, not with a limp and a lotsided fae.
By my gracious even, I find a man, all right, All.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Right, Chester, Look, Nancy, I'll watch for your Paul, and
if he does come into Dodge, I'll have.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
A talk with him.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
You do that, and I'll surely thank you, Marshall. Say Marshall,
that's right. If it helps any I know where that
Ben Tolliver is at, you can do right there. It's
a long branch saloon having a beer, you know where?
Speaker 5 (05:26):
I mean?
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Yeah, I seen his tors tight outside, so I went
up and looked through the window. He's there right now.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Nancy, Why didn't you tell me this before?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I never thought of it.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Well you knew something about Paul, now, won't you, Marshall?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Mighty fair? She don't know? Get up from hold? Does
she miss?
Speaker 4 (05:46):
You?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Don't? She's kindly pretty? But goudin chin and flack jad.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Come on, Chester, let's go have a talk with Ben
Tolliver and find out.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
What this is all about.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
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Speaker 2 (07:25):
Do you want me to come into long Branch with him?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
This John?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah, Chester, but stay as the door while I talked
to Tolliver. But how are you going to know which
one is him?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
There won't be more than three or four people than
that at this time of day.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
You recommend to him sitting at the table over.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
There, Yeah, it could be hello. Your name Ben Tolliver?
That's right. My name is Dylan. I'm a marshall here
in Dodge. You mind if I sit down? Please yourself?
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
A girl named Nancy Creek came out of my office
a little while ago.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
What you want, she says? Her paw is looking for you. No, yeah,
he claims you stole one of his horses. Is that right?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
He owed me four months wages and he wouldn't pay me.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Do you think he can stop Paul from shooting?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Ben?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I can sure trust to somebody else, no matter what
your figure.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Look mister, I called him when he was running wild
out on the range. I brought him into Old Creed's
place and broken myself. I put three months work into
that study, and on my own time of an evening, Craig.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Says it was his horse and that she was stolen.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
No such thing. Besides, he said he'd pay me thirty
dollars a month, and he threw me out without a penny.
We come on, try, I'm on where I'm gonna take
you to jail, jail. What are you putting me in
jail for her?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
If what Nancy says is true Creed is coming into
town to shoot you, put me in Jail's the.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Best way I know to stop a fight.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
But I ain't done nothing wrong.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Mark, You'll only be in jail to listen and get
straightened out.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
And now later this afternoon, all right out and have
a talk with Creed before he decides to come into town.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I'm sure he has fought out here.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
He is funny to speck of shade from miles around
out If.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
He's breaking wild horses out here, he doesn't have time
to worry about the heat.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
We better leave our horses hair chest. Don't be banging
on the door. I see you're coming, you Jack Creed.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
That's right. I want to talk to your Creed. Three you,
mister Marshall Dillon from Dodge. I'll come out. What is
he you want? I want to know about Ben Tolliver.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
They fool Nancy run the dodge and told you that's right. Yeah,
since she did, I won't try to fool you. That
boy stole a horse in mind, I figure in a
couple of days i'll go after him.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Find him shoot him. Look, Creed, you just can't shot
a man down. You know why not? He stole a horse,
so I got cause to shoot on.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I'll listen to me. I don't have to listen to
nobody and the marshall. You're all filled up with laws.
I ain't got time to make that.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
No, I'll just shoot him.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Crazy that you come into Dodge and swear how to
complaint against Tulliver.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
You forget about the whole thing.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
I got very forty range horses out here, only half broke.
I can't be wasting time fooling around with no trme.
Did you owe the boy money? Of course, not everything
he did.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I had to show him how the way I see it,
he should have paid me. He worked out here for
you for four months, didn't he. You could say that
he told me that that stud horse was his. Yeah,
since he caught him.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
And broke him, I guess you'd figure it that way.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
But Ben was working at my place and taking my
food that studs.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
My law might not agree with you, Creed.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
That's just why I'm going to handle my own trouble
and not mess around with a law. Look, I've tried
to tell you, Creton, I'm gonna tell you once more
real playing. He'll shoot that boy and you'll hang for it.
I don't care what you think. The right of it is,
all right, come.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
On Chester, and maybe I won't shoot it, and I'll
fix that point.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Get some other way in the net, stud or he's
not proud of us.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Ha few years of old buffoses meaning that stakers may
thank Yeah, you can do, Jim.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I can't keep Ben Toler in jail forever.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Gus if to turn him loose in the morning, and
then I hope they don't run into each other.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
You're free now, Ben, Thanks Marshall.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Being in jail overnight makes a fellow kind of achie.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I'm sorry about that. I did it to same trouble.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Oh, I know, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
I don't blame you nothing.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
What's gonna do now, Ben won't?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Right?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I thought maybe I could find myself.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
A job of work somewhere. Oh what kind of work?
Speaker 1 (13:04):
All on those horses.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
There would be some spread near here that could use
a hand.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
There's anybody looking for a hard hands, saying over at
the Long Branch didn't know about it.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I'll tell you what, Ben, I walked on with you.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
If you like, well, thanks, Marshall, Which you doing?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah? What is it? Chester?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
You could just have a beer while here down there talking,
couldn't you? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Say, Chester, Well why don't you come along with us?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Huh, thank you. See that's a good idea was done,
and I'm glad you thought of it.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Oh, thank you. Chester. Where are you from then?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
California, California?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
What do you doing it? Cas?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
This is the cow country, Marshall, California. Just don't have
a spread. Yeah, but all that gold I said a
goal rush.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Was twenty years ago. Chester.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Well I know that, so they might just be a
little dab of it left laying around. I sure didn't
find any Jester me, you didn't know where to look. Well,
I don't see Sam.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
No worse.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Oh my okay, it's Ben Tolliver.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Well, hi, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
We came down to talk to Sam and have some beer.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Well, I can get you the beer, Chester, But Sam's
down at the depot with the wagon.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Ah. I see you're up kind of early, aren't you.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
I can sleep this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Come on to the bar.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I'll get your beer. Okay, h you make a pretty
fancy bartender, and Kitty, well, girl's got to have an
acepharate sleeve.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Chester? What never mind? Chester? What do you do doing this?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Slum this?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Even? Well? Ben here is looking for a job.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
What sort of job?
Speaker 7 (14:55):
Ben?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
On a ranch somewhere?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Miss kid? You work around Stock much all my life?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Just about that. He was working for Jake Creed up
until yesterday. Jake Creed. Yeah you know him.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I know about him. Only a few months back. Some
cowboy was giving me half a dozen reasons why you
ought to kill him.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Yeah, he must have.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Been the fellow Jake threw out just before I come along.
You probably stayed with him about three four months, is
that right, yes, ma'am. Then he started some argument. You
had a fight and he threw out. That's about the
right of it, and no pay in the bargain. I
swear I don't know how Creed gets away with him.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Well, I guess there's always somebody knew drifting by who
doesn't know his reputation.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
What'd you argue about then? Ah? A little bit of everything,
miss kitty, but mostly on how to rope?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
How to rope?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah, Creed says, when you're working stock, the only way
is to tie hard and fast in our dellly. I
sure couldn't argue that, kitty.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
You see, hard and fast means that you're ei the
end of your rope to the saddle horn.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
And when you dalley, you just hold the end of
the rope in your hand and twisted around the horn
a couple of times prints straight that way the rope
gets tangled up the mount's legs or yours.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
You let go on.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
You're free. There ain't no way to get dragged if
you doaly.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Of course, most fellows don't think it amounts too much,
but some do. In California, Well, they sure don't in Texas. Well,
I'm glad I make a living in here. It sounds complicated,
I guess, miss Kiddy, but it ain't to a horseman. Well,
no matter what the argument was about, he should have paid.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Been, say been, if you got any money at.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
All, nosy, Uh, look here, I'll give you five dollars
and then well you can pay me back when you
make it.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Thanks marsha as long as you've got your money out, Marshall,
don't forget them here. Yeah, thank you, Marshall. I think
maybe i'd better go down and have a look at
my hornse make sure he's been watered this morning. Hey,
could I go with you?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I'd like to see your horse. I'm sure.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Then you come back later this afternoon, Sam will be
and we can talk about.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
A job for you. Thank you, miss kidding. He seems
like a nice young fellowness.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah, what's my Oh just thinking about Jake Creed?
Speaker 1 (17:23):
What about him?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
He's got something on his mind?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Kidding he'll try to get even with Ben Tolliver Someway.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Oh, pardon me, sir, what's the matter. I'm gonna be
a father.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
Well, congratulations, that's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Not the ninth time it goes.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
We'll just think because you're a serviceman, your wife is
under the Dependence Medical Care program that means complete maternity
and infant care. Why you'll practically have the baby for nothing.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
It's not having that bothers me. It's the rest.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
The rest.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Yeah, I don't get any They're always crying and yelling
and playing warning a drink of water in the middle
of the night.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
And there's the food bills and the closing bills.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
For more about medicare, get the pamphlets Dependence Medical.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Care, pro Brabior and PABLEM and three o'clock Feedings and
Burping and walking the worst thing he was mister don yeh,
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what is it? Chester, mister done, he's gone? Who's gone?
Ben Tollivery, He took a horse from Moss Grimmicks and
he's headed out for the Creed Place. He says he's gonna.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Kill him for what's for? Was this all about?
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Well?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
This morning I was having a cup of cobbe with
Ben over at the Long Branch, and I walked down
the stable with him to kind of keep him company,
like while you're fadden down.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
And that's when we saw it. That poorl study. He
was soft watchester.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
A Moss told us he gen old man creed out
in back of the crowd, but he didn't think too much.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Ore would get tell me what happened?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
That mean old devil hamstrung Ben's stud, mister Dillan, he hamstrung.
He cut the tendons in both hind legs. That poor
horse couldn't budget inch out of his tracks. Ben just
stood there, he was stony like, looking at stud shot him.
Didn't say nothing more, just turned and walked away with
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that funny kind of looked on his face.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
All right, come on, Chester, that's right after the Creed place,
before Ben does something he'll be sorry for.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
I'm coming.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Home much. Is your pa here in Nancy?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Down to the catch here? It ain't time to eat,
so he's working.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I see if you've seen Ben Tolliver.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
She did. He rode up here a few minutes ago,
wanted to see Paul. I told him Paul was down
to the corrals. He just went down there.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Come on, Chester, if you're going down to drop the paw,
go with you.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
He goes down to the crowds before Jeller and don't
come back some time for dinner.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
What you want, paw? Firm?
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Keep me from getting killed?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Man kill Paul, you don't think? Come on, let's go,
mister Dyllan moved out in the middle of that catch
pant All right, Tolliver, hold that right where you are, all.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
Moving now, give me your gun work for Ken, tell me.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
All right now you're under arrest, and this time he'll
stay untail man.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Why did you shoot my paw? I didn't, Nancy?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Well, then, who didn't shoot him?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Nobody shot him? Marshall. I'm trying to tell you Jake
was already dead when I got here. It was a
horse a shot. See for yourself.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
What's to me?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Like Jake's horse got tangled up in the rope while
they were working. A Mustang Horris got throwed and Jake
was trapped under him and mustang drug him. Both killed Jake.
His horse had two legs broke, so I shot him.
That's what you've heard.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Looks like I'd tell him the truth, man.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I am Marshall, Col Paul.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I always told.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Jake he shouldn't work while horses alone. You ought to
have somebody snub for him. Paul always did have a
mind of his own.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
He sure did. It's that old devil. You should be glad.
It's that been I saved you from my hand.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Gunsmoke forro Houston, directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad
as Matt Dylan us Marshall.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
The script was specially written for Gunsmoke by.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Less Rushfield, the editorial supervision by John Meston. The music
was composed and conducted by Rex Cory. Sound patterns were
by Ray Kemper and Bill James. Featured in the cast
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This is the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service, and.
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You have an.
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Around Dodge City and in the territory on West, there
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshal and the smell of
guns smoke guns Starry William Conrad, The story of the
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violence that moved west with young America, and the story
of a.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Man who moved with us.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
I'm that man, Matt Dellham, United States Marshall, the first
man they look for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chance, a job, and it makes a man
watchful and a little lonely.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
And I sure do hope things mister Dillan, Are you
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listening to this? Huh oh, yeah, yeah, sure go ahead, Chester,
And I sure do hope things has been good with
you like they had been with me. Take care of yourself.
Maybe I will come up to see you one day soon,
your loving brother Magne. And down here at the bottom
of the paper, he says, your uncle Will got crumped
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on by a Kyle last week.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
And I ain't that nice, mister John. What are you
mean about?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I go well, No, I mean getting this letter from Magnus.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
It's real thought of him. It's the first one I
remember you getting.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
It's the first one he's wrote to me. At least.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It sure is funny, though I.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Never knew that boy could write a lict.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Oh maybe he's learned since you saw him last.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
No, No, I don't think so, because magnets don't hold
with schooling now, no shirt, none of my kinfolks does.
We Mayama always said that all the body needs to
know is how to cook, care for your own and
get to the church. She must have made your Paul
very good wife. I don't know as he ever said.
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He run off when I was only four. Him and
me never talked to each other much.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
He's a marshal mister, all right, he yes, Miam, that's right.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I'm Nancy cree Well, come.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
In, Masha, this is Chester prodflip. That's crety.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
How you do creed Manchu.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I come to see you because my PAW's gonna shoot
somebody dead and I want you.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Should stop him.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Who's your paw gonna shoot? Nancy?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Fellow?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
That work frame for a spell?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Name Ben Taliver? Oh is your pauw after it?
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Ben run off last night and took one of Paul's studs.
Paul says he is just about the best stud Paul
ever saw.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Oh what do you and your Paul live, Nancy?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
About twenty miles from here, how along the Arkansas.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
And you think this man that's been Tolliver came into Dutch.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I don't just think it, Marshall, I know it, and
so does Paul. Ben Allay said he was coming here,
that's see. So I sneaked away this morning after Paul
went down to the corral to come tell you. I
figured you'd be the failer to see, being the Marshall
And oh.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Well, look, Nancy, if this man stole one of your
PAW's horses, why doesn't your.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Paw come in here and tell me? He could swear
out a warrant for Tulliver and then I could arrest him.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Pau don't want to, He says he will take care
of his own troubles. Do you think he can stop
Paul from shooting Ben? Oh?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I can sure try. And Nancy, tell me, what does
your paw look like look like? Well, you see, I
don't know your paw, but if I know what he
looked like, I could watch for him.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
You see, I never thought about Paus looking like anything
except just Paul.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
He's kind of gray.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
But then he's always looked like that.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Well anything else.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
He's got a bad leg from where a horse kicked
him and his jaws.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Busted some Well, that don't sound like he should be
hard to find, not with a limp and a lotsided fae.
By my gracious even, I find a man, all right, All.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Right, Chester, Look, Nancy, I'll watch for your Paul, and
if he does come into Dodge, I'll have.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
A talk with him.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
You do that, and I'll surely thank you, Marshall. Say Marshall,
that's right. If it helps any I know where that
Ben Tolliver is at, you can do right there. It's
a long branch saloon having a beer, you know where?
Speaker 5 (05:26):
I mean?
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Yeah, I seen his tors tight outside, so I went
up and looked through the window. He's there right now.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Nancy, Why didn't you tell me this before?
Speaker 1 (05:36):
I never thought of it.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Well you knew something about Paul, now, won't you, Marshall?
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Mighty fair? She don't know? Get up from hold? Does
she miss?
Speaker 4 (05:46):
You?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Don't? She's kindly pretty? But goudin chin and flack jad.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Come on, Chester, let's go have a talk with Ben
Tolliver and find out.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
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Speaker 2 (07:25):
Do you want me to come into long Branch with him?
Speaker 1 (07:27):
This John?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah, Chester, but stay as the door while I talked
to Tolliver. But how are you going to know which
one is him?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
There won't be more than three or four people than
that at this time of day.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
You recommend to him sitting at the table over.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
There, Yeah, it could be hello. Your name Ben Tolliver?
That's right. My name is Dylan. I'm a marshall here
in Dodge. You mind if I sit down? Please yourself?
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
A girl named Nancy Creek came out of my office
a little while ago.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
What you want, she says? Her paw is looking for you. No, yeah,
he claims you stole one of his horses. Is that right?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
He owed me four months wages and he wouldn't pay me.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Do you think he can stop Paul from shooting?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Ben?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I can sure trust to somebody else, no matter what
your figure.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Look mister, I called him when he was running wild
out on the range. I brought him into Old Creed's
place and broken myself. I put three months work into
that study, and on my own time of an evening, Craig.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Says it was his horse and that she was stolen.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
No such thing. Besides, he said he'd pay me thirty
dollars a month, and he threw me out without a penny.
We come on, try, I'm on where I'm gonna take
you to jail, jail. What are you putting me in
jail for her?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
If what Nancy says is true Creed is coming into
town to shoot you, put me in Jail's the.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Best way I know to stop a fight.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
But I ain't done nothing wrong.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Mark, You'll only be in jail to listen and get
straightened out.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
And now later this afternoon, all right out and have
a talk with Creed before he decides to come into town.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
I'm sure he has fought out here.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
He is funny to speck of shade from miles around
out If.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
He's breaking wild horses out here, he doesn't have time
to worry about the heat.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
We better leave our horses hair chest. Don't be banging
on the door. I see you're coming, you Jack Creed.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
That's right. I want to talk to your Creed. Three you,
mister Marshall Dillon from Dodge. I'll come out. What is
he you want? I want to know about Ben Tolliver.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
They fool Nancy run the dodge and told you that's right. Yeah,
since she did, I won't try to fool you. That
boy stole a horse in mind, I figure in a
couple of days i'll go after him.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Find him shoot him. Look, Creed, you just can't shot
a man down. You know why not? He stole a horse,
so I got cause to shoot on.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I'll listen to me. I don't have to listen to
nobody and the marshall. You're all filled up with laws.
I ain't got time to make that.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
No, I'll just shoot him.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Crazy that you come into Dodge and swear how to
complaint against Tulliver.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
You forget about the whole thing.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
I got very forty range horses out here, only half broke.
I can't be wasting time fooling around with no trme.
Did you owe the boy money? Of course, not everything
he did.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
I had to show him how the way I see it,
he should have paid me. He worked out here for
you for four months, didn't he. You could say that
he told me that that stud horse was his. Yeah,
since he caught him.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
And broke him, I guess you'd figure it that way.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
But Ben was working at my place and taking my
food that studs.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
My law might not agree with you, Creed.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
That's just why I'm going to handle my own trouble
and not mess around with a law. Look, I've tried
to tell you, Creton, I'm gonna tell you once more
real playing. He'll shoot that boy and you'll hang for it.
I don't care what you think. The right of it is,
all right, come.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
On Chester, and maybe I won't shoot it, and I'll
fix that point.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Get some other way in the net, stud or he's
not proud of us.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Ha few years of old buffoses meaning that stakers may
thank Yeah, you can do, Jim.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I can't keep Ben Toler in jail forever.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Gus if to turn him loose in the morning, and
then I hope they don't run into each other.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
You're free now, Ben, Thanks Marshall.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Being in jail overnight makes a fellow kind of achie.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I'm sorry about that. I did it to same trouble.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Oh, I know, Marshall.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
I don't blame you nothing.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
What's gonna do now, Ben won't?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Right?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I thought maybe I could find myself.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
A job of work somewhere. Oh what kind of work?
Speaker 1 (13:04):
All on those horses.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
There would be some spread near here that could use
a hand.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
There's anybody looking for a hard hands, saying over at
the Long Branch didn't know about it.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I'll tell you what, Ben, I walked on with you.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
If you like, well, thanks, Marshall, Which you doing?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah? What is it? Chester?
Speaker 1 (13:23):
You could just have a beer while here down there talking,
couldn't you? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Say, Chester, Well why don't you come along with us?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Huh, thank you. See that's a good idea was done,
and I'm glad you thought of it.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Oh, thank you. Chester. Where are you from then?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
California, California?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
What do you doing it? Cas?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
This is the cow country, Marshall, California. Just don't have
a spread. Yeah, but all that gold I said a
goal rush.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Was twenty years ago. Chester.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Well I know that, so they might just be a
little dab of it left laying around. I sure didn't
find any Jester me, you didn't know where to look. Well,
I don't see Sam.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
No worse.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Oh my okay, it's Ben Tolliver.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Well, hi, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
We came down to talk to Sam and have some beer.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Well, I can get you the beer, Chester, But Sam's
down at the depot with the wagon.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Ah. I see you're up kind of early, aren't you.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
I can sleep this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Come on to the bar.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I'll get your beer. Okay, h you make a pretty
fancy bartender, and Kitty, well, girl's got to have an
acepharate sleeve.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Chester? What never mind? Chester? What do you do doing this?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Slum this?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Even? Well? Ben here is looking for a job.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
What sort of job?
Speaker 7 (14:55):
Ben?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
On a ranch somewhere?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Miss kid? You work around Stock much all my life?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Just about that. He was working for Jake Creed up
until yesterday. Jake Creed. Yeah you know him.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I know about him. Only a few months back. Some
cowboy was giving me half a dozen reasons why you
ought to kill him.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Yeah, he must have.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Been the fellow Jake threw out just before I come along.
You probably stayed with him about three four months, is
that right, yes, ma'am. Then he started some argument. You
had a fight and he threw out. That's about the
right of it, and no pay in the bargain. I
swear I don't know how Creed gets away with him.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Well, I guess there's always somebody knew drifting by who
doesn't know his reputation.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
What'd you argue about then? Ah? A little bit of everything,
miss kitty, but mostly on how to rope?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
How to rope?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah, Creed says, when you're working stock, the only way
is to tie hard and fast in our dellly. I
sure couldn't argue that, kitty.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
You see, hard and fast means that you're ei the
end of your rope to the saddle horn.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
And when you dalley, you just hold the end of
the rope in your hand and twisted around the horn
a couple of times prints straight that way the rope
gets tangled up the mount's legs or yours.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
You let go on.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
You're free. There ain't no way to get dragged if
you doaly.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Of course, most fellows don't think it amounts too much,
but some do. In California, Well, they sure don't in Texas. Well,
I'm glad I make a living in here. It sounds complicated,
I guess, miss Kiddy, but it ain't to a horseman. Well,
no matter what the argument was about, he should have paid.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Been, say been, if you got any money at.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
All, nosy, Uh, look here, I'll give you five dollars
and then well you can pay me back when you
make it.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Thanks marsha as long as you've got your money out, Marshall,
don't forget them here. Yeah, thank you, Marshall. I think
maybe i'd better go down and have a look at
my hornse make sure he's been watered this morning. Hey,
could I go with you?
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I'd like to see your horse. I'm sure.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Then you come back later this afternoon, Sam will be
and we can talk about.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
A job for you. Thank you, miss kidding. He seems
like a nice young fellowness.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah, what's my Oh just thinking about Jake Creed?
Speaker 1 (17:23):
What about him?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
He's got something on his mind?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Kidding he'll try to get even with Ben Tolliver Someway.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Oh, pardon me, sir, what's the matter. I'm gonna be
a father.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
Well, congratulations, that's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Not the ninth time it goes.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
We'll just think because you're a serviceman, your wife is
under the Dependence Medical Care program that means complete maternity
and infant care. Why you'll practically have the baby for nothing.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
It's not having that bothers me. It's the rest.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
The rest.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Yeah, I don't get any They're always crying and yelling
and playing warning a drink of water in the middle
of the night.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
And there's the food bills and the closing bills.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
For more about medicare, get the pamphlets Dependence Medical.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Care, pro Brabior and PABLEM and three o'clock Feedings and
Burping and walking the worst thing he was mister don yeh,
(19:10):
what is it? Chester, mister done, he's gone? Who's gone?
Ben Tollivery, He took a horse from Moss Grimmicks and
he's headed out for the Creed Place. He says he's gonna.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Kill him for what's for? Was this all about?
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Well?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
This morning I was having a cup of cobbe with
Ben over at the Long Branch, and I walked down
the stable with him to kind of keep him company,
like while you're fadden down.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
And that's when we saw it. That poorl study. He
was soft watchester.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
A Moss told us he gen old man creed out
in back of the crowd, but he didn't think too much.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Ore would get tell me what happened?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
That mean old devil hamstrung Ben's stud, mister Dillan, he hamstrung.
He cut the tendons in both hind legs. That poor
horse couldn't budget inch out of his tracks. Ben just
stood there, he was stony like, looking at stud shot him.
Didn't say nothing more, just turned and walked away with
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that funny kind of looked on his face.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
All right, come on, Chester, that's right after the Creed place,
before Ben does something he'll be sorry for.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
I'm coming.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Home much. Is your pa here in Nancy?
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Down to the catch here? It ain't time to eat,
so he's working.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I see if you've seen Ben Tolliver.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
She did. He rode up here a few minutes ago,
wanted to see Paul. I told him Paul was down
to the corrals. He just went down there.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Come on, Chester, if you're going down to drop the paw,
go with you.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
He goes down to the crowds before Jeller and don't
come back some time for dinner.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
What you want, paw? Firm?
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Keep me from getting killed?
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Man kill Paul, you don't think? Come on, let's go,
mister Dyllan moved out in the middle of that catch
pant All right, Tolliver, hold that right where you are, all.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
Moving now, give me your gun work for Ken, tell me.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
All right now you're under arrest, and this time he'll
stay untail man.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Why did you shoot my paw? I didn't, Nancy?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Well, then, who didn't shoot him?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Nobody shot him? Marshall. I'm trying to tell you Jake
was already dead when I got here. It was a
horse a shot. See for yourself.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
What's to me?
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Like Jake's horse got tangled up in the rope while
they were working. A Mustang Horris got throwed and Jake
was trapped under him and mustang drug him. Both killed Jake.
His horse had two legs broke, so I shot him.
That's what you've heard.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Looks like I'd tell him the truth, man.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
I am Marshall, Col Paul.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
I always told.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Jake he shouldn't work while horses alone. You ought to
have somebody snub for him. Paul always did have a
mind of his own.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
He sure did. It's that old devil. You should be glad.
It's that been I saved you from my hand.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Gunsmoke forro Houston, directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad
as Matt Dylan us Marshall.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
The script was specially written for Gunsmoke by.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Less Rushfield, the editorial supervision by John Meston. The music
was composed and conducted by Rex Cory. Sound patterns were
by Ray Kemper and Bill James. Featured in the cast
were Parley Bear as Chester, Howard McGear as Doc, and
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